Climate guideThirty-year normals for Maradi
Maradi climate by month
Hot desert · BWhBest Jan–Feb · Dec
Annual mean28°day and night
Seasonal swing11°warmest vs coolest
Precipitation408 mm71 wet days a year
13.50° N, 7.10° EElevation 360 mUTC+1 · West Africa Time
When to goMaradi · weather score
Best timeJan–Feb · Dec
October: high / low36° / 22°
iSummary
What the weather is like
Maradi has a hot desert climate (Köppen BWh): very little rain and intense sun.
The warmest month is April, when afternoons average 40° and nights 23°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 29° and lows of 14°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 11°.
About 408 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. August is the wettest month (149 mm, 23 wet days) and January the driest (0 mm, 0 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 12% in January to 42% in August.
Compared with Niamey, the capital, Maradi is 1.1° cooler on a April afternoon and receives less precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 40° · April
- Coldest nights
- 14° · January
- Wettest month
- August
- Driest month
- January
- Clearest skies
- January · 12% cloud
- Longest day
- 12 h 55 min
- Shortest day
- 11 h 20 min
iiCharts
Twelve months at a glance
Temperature and precipitation
Daily high/low range bars, monthly precipitation columnsTemperature curve
Average high, lowDaylight
Hours between sunrise and sunset on the 15th of each monthiiiData table
Climate normals month by month
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Average high | 29° | 32° | 36° | 40° | 39° | 37° | 34° | 32° | 34° | 36° | 34° | 31° |
| Average low | 14° | 16° | 19° | 23° | 25° | 26° | 24° | 23° | 23° | 22° | 18° | 15° |
| Precipitation | 0 mm | 0 mm | 0 mm | 2 mm | 17 mm | 48 mm | 118 mm | 149 mm | 68 mm | 6 mm | 0 mm | 0 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 0 | 0 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 1.7 | 6.7 | 20.2 | 23 | 15.2 | 2.8 | 0.3 | 0 |
| Cloud cover | 12% | 13% | 21% | 23% | 22% | 21% | 35% | 42% | 31% | 20% | 16% | 14% |
| Daylight | 11h 25 | 11h 42 | 12h 03 | 12h 26 | 12h 45 | 12h 55 | 12h 51 | 12h 35 | 12h 13 | 11h 51 | 11h 31 | 11h 20 |
| Month score | 82 | 69 | 57 | 57 | 54 | 42 | 29 | 35 | 30 | 51 | 62 | 77 |
ivMonth by month
Maradi in every month
January82
29° / 14°
0 mm · 0 wet days
February69
32° / 16°
0 mm · 0 wet days
March57
36° / 19°
0 mm · 0.3 wet days
April57
40° / 23°
2 mm · 0.5 wet day
May54
39° / 25°
17 mm · 1.7 wet days
June42
37° / 26°
48 mm · 6.7 wet days
July29
34° / 24°
118 mm · 20.2 wet days
August35
32° / 23°
149 mm · 23 wet days
September30
34° / 23°
68 mm · 15.2 wet days
October51
36° / 22°
6 mm · 2.8 wet days
November62
34° / 18°
0 mm · 0.3 wet days
December77
31° / 15°
0 mm · 0 wet days